Polygon Fill by ThreeDee

Polygon Fill by ThreeDee
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/11240.html

yeaaahh!!! I see what you did now.

WOW!! I did not know it has already been published in the library!! GREAT!!

First of all congratulations for the Editor´s Pick award, you deserve surely for making this awesome and amazing filter and also thanks to FF for giving it.

As Lipebianc said very well, fantastic and awesome work

Now that I have seen it, I like it much and is very well done and is MUCH more than what I have suggested in this other thread and you have added layers and drop shadows that looks very beautiful and gives a great effect.

Also you have many possible variants and can customize it in different ways and get different effects with different settings, and with and without poligon outlines.

And looking at how you have done the filters is also interesting and complex

You are really a great master and expert filter forger and admire the skills and experience you have and the ideas you have

Thanks very much for making this great and useful filter

and here is another one

Sorry to ask this, and I am sorry that is could be easy, but I do not understand what the mask fill is for?, and how can be used?

Thanks ThreeDee for explaining it and now I understand it.

Although now I have another mistery that I do not understand, and it is that when changing any of the colors of the layers, it does NOT change the color of the same poligonal design, it completely changes the design of the poligonal fill according to the color you choose , I mean that you get different poligonal fills designs depending on the color you choose on each layer and can´t have the same poligonal fill with different colors.

OR perhaps I am doing something wrong or have wrong settings that makes this possible, OR also can it be a problem with the source image, I do not know.

I will put an example

And another more visible example, using the same image above, now I replace the Grey "color 3" (that fills a large amount in the image) with green, and suprise, all the grey color from the previous design disappears !!


As said above I do not know if it could be for a bad settings or bad source image or that this is how it works, or whatever.

Perhaps I should put an example with the built-in FF images so it could be tested better.

Thanks for the answer, ThreeDee, sorry that I did not know really how it works and I thought that you could choose whatever color and I was wrong in the way I was doing it, so I am sorry it was my fault using it badly.

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it looks for areas in the image that are the same color as the layer, so if you change the color, the area changes accordingly.

YES, I have tried now as you have said, and is true that it works really this way and you should sel ect the layers colors according to the original colors of the source image and not try to change those colors in the layers to any other. Sorry for not understanding how it worked.

Although it would be really good if FF could let you use the color picker to pick colors from the original sourge image, and so this would be perfect.

To pick colors very close to the ones included in the source image I think that the way is to write down on a paper the RGB values of 9 choosen colors fr om the original and then write them inside the settings of the filter in each layer.

Here I have put some color stripes done with your new way to do it right it is not right as it is now, but keeping tweaking and selecting the right colors it can look better surely.

Thanks again for the answer and for making this filter

All the above examples I have put are based on loading a source image to the color control setting but this is not the only way you can use this awesome and lovely filter

You can also make simple polygon fill texture with one color and shadows if you want. You just only need to do not load any image into the color control, or if you have already one loaded, you have to unload it selecting the small triangle and choosing unload image

You can only have the texture with only ONE color that you may choose and another for background or mask fill

Here is one example I have done

In both above examples you can´t use more than one layer to make the Poligon fill pattern and only one color, BUT there is another possible way to have more than one layer and to have more than one color

2 - A TRANSPARENT ALPHA BACKGROUND

You can render your one color pattern (with or without shadow or outlines) with a transparent alpha background, so then after in Photoshop or any other similar software that supports layers you can mix various different ones and the other colors will show through the transparent parts of the previous texture that is on the layer.

Following from the example above, instead of loading an image, you must go to File--> New Image and put the resolution you want and select the fill color as transparent in the same way as shown above in the second example with the color picker.

The second option for the above is render each color from Filter Forge and also optional you can change the settings for each one of the patterns.

I will not make an example of this one as it would be much the same as the above one here, the only difference is how you do it, and I have seen that using different patterns below the main one, is not important as I could not notice a difference, unless you want to have an specific result.

This has been a post done in 5 parts, so if you are just only reading this one, it begins 4 posts above this one, and below the stripes example.

Hello all. I love what this filter does, but am frustrated as it will not utilize my own image. Regardless how many times I open my image into it, it only processes the sample image for each variation. I've been using FF successfully for four years. What am I missing here? I really want to use this filter on my own images. I'm using version 5.0007 Professional.
Thanks!

I use Filter Forge as a stand-alone.
I always bring in my images via the File menu. For every filter, "Open Image" or Control-O, opens up the image in the chosen filter and I keep rolling.
Why do I have to go into settings and load my image there for this filter?
It worked, but that's not the norm.

Thanks for your response.

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Judilynn Art wrote: I always bring in my images via the File menu. For every filter, "Open Image" or Control-O, opens up the image in the chosen filter and I keep rolling. Why do I have to go into settings and load my image there for this filter?

As Xirja said, since FF 3 the filter can have two different input ways, and both have advantages and disadvantages, and some times is better to load the images through the settings panel as it happens in this filter and others use the way you described using the file menu

There are many reasons to use one or another option to load images, it can be long to explain why.

You will be able to know if the filters uses the image load in the settings if you find the little square to load the images in the settings.

Also there are some filters (like some of mine) that have the option to CHOOSE wich way you want to use to load the images, because as said both ways give different results, and can have things that are not possible done with one or the other way.

Simply editing the filter, and replacing the 'Color Control' component with the 'Image' component, and your good to go again.


Polygon Fill (Image Component).ffxml

ThreeDee this is really a very well done, original and creative filter, like it much

Thanks SpaceRay for all the many examples and showing what you have done with this filter, is useful and interesting

I have just found this image and then remembered this filter that makes lovely and awesome images with lines and triangles with shadow

Want to thanks really very much to ThreeDee for making this filter and I miss you much